Wesley and Methodist Studies

WESLEY A N D M E T HODI S T STUDIES ! T H E P E N N S Y L V A N I A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y PRESS VOL. 13, NO. 1 2021 Editors Geordan Hammond, Manchester Wesley Research Centre and Nazarene Teological College, UK Clive Norris, Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, UK Assistant Editors Rachel Cope, Brigham Young University, USA Joseph W. Cunningham, Eureka College, USA Kenneth M. Loyer, United Methodist Church, USA Book Reviews Editor Martin Wellings, World Methodist Historical Society, UK Editorial Board Kimberly Ervin Alexander, Ramp School of Ministry, USA J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Trinity Teological Seminary, Ghana Joanna Cruickshank, Deakin University, Australia Dennis C. Dickerson, Vanderbilt University, USA David N. Field, Methodist e-Academy, Switzerland Dion Forster, Stellenbosch University, South Africa William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University, UK Chris E. W. Green, Southeastern University, USA David Ceri Jones, Aberystwyth University, UK Julie A. Lunn, Nazarene Teological College, UK Mark A. Maddix, Point Loma Nazarene University, USA Randy L. Maddox, Duke Divinity School, USA Paulo Ayres Mattos, Faculdade de Teologia REFIDIM, Brazil Philip R. Meadows, Asbury Teological Seminary, USA Glen O’Brien, Eva Burrows College, University of Divinity, Australia Chang Hoon Park, Seoul Teological University, South Korea James E. Pedlar, Tyndale University, Canada Priscilla Pope-Levison, Perkins School of Teology, Southern Methodist University, USA Isabel Rivers, Queen Mary University of London, UK Ulrike Schuler, Reutlingen School of Teology, Germany L. Wesley de Souza, Candler School of Teology, Emory University, USA Karen B. Westerfeld Tucker, Boston University School of Teology, USA WESLEY AND METHODIST STUDIES Vol. 13, No. 1, 2021 Articles Stewardship and Response: Te Moral-Teological Heart of John Wesley’s Economics / 1 Gregory P. Van Buskirk Te Language of Salvation in William Booth’s In Darkest England / 24 Mark R. Teasdale Why Not Now?: Te 1890 and 1894 Free Methodist Debates on Ordaining Women / 45 Christy Mesaros-Winckles A Vocation of Holiness: A Practitioner Rereads the Doctrinal Standards of the British Methodist Church / 69 Philip Stanley Turner Book Reviews James G. Donat and Randy L. Maddox (eds), Medical and Health Writings (Te Works of John Wesley, volume 32). E. Brooks Holifeld, Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition: Journey Towards Wholeness / 91 Reviewed by Deborah Madden Julie A. Lunn, Te Teology of Sanctifcation and Resignation in Charles Wesley’s Hymns / 94 Reviewed by Tim Woolley Andrew O. Winckles, Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution: ‘Consider the Lord as Ever Present Reader’ / 95 Reviewed by Fiona Macdonald Dennis C. Dickerson, Te African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History / 97 Reviewed by Martin Wellings Rex D. Matthews, Ministerial Orders and Sacramental Authority in Te United Methodist Church and its Antecedents, 1784–2016 / 99 Reviewed by Karen B. Westerfield Tucker Darryl W. Stephens, Methodist Morals: Social Principles and the Public Church’s Witness / 101 Reviewed by David N. Field Robert D. Branson (ed.), Global Wesleyan Encyclopaedia of Biblical Teology / 103 Reviewed by Neil G. Richardson Samuel M. Powell, Te Trinity / 105 Reviewed by Richard Clutterbuck The Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History / 107 Wesley and Methodist Studies (WMS) publishes peer-reviewed scholarly essays that examine the life and work of John and Charles Wesley, their contemporaries (proponents or opponents) in the eighteenth-century Evangelical Revival, their historical and theological antecedents, their successors in the Wesleyan tradition, and studies of the Wesleyan and Evangelical traditions today. Its primary historical scope is the eighteenth century to the present; however, WMS will publish essays that explore the historical and theological antecedents of the Wesleys (including work on Samuel and Susanna Wesley), Methodism, and the Evangelical Revival. WMS is a collaborative project of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, and is published biannually by Penn State University Press. WMS Website: www.mwrc.ac.uk/wesley-and-methodist-studies. Submission Information All submissions should be sent to the editors using the journal’s online submission and peer review system: http://www.editorialmanager.com/wms/. Detailed guidelines for submission are available for download from the menu in Editorial Manager. Subscription Information Wesley and Methodist Studies is published biannually by the Penn State University Press, 820 N. University Dr., USB 1-C, University Park, PA 16802. 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Rights and Permission Te journal is registered under its ISSN (2291-1723 [E-ISSN 2291-1731]) with the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Dr., Danvers, MA 01923 (www. copyright.com). For information about reprints or multiple copying for class- room use, contact the CCC’s Academic Permissions Service, or write to the Pennsylvania State University Press, 820 N. University Dr., USB 1-C, University Park, PA 16802. Cover: Manuscript page of Charles Wesley’s sermon ‘Remembering the Sabbath’ reproduced courtesy of the Librarian and Director, Te John Rylands Library, Te University of Manchester. Copyright © 2021 by the Manchester Wesley Research Centre and the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. All rights reserved. No copies may be made without the written permission of the publisher. Stewardship and Response Te Moral-Teological Heart of John Wesley’s Economics Gregory P. Van Buskirk Abstract Tis article reframes John Wesley’s economics as a species of his moral theology of stewardship and response. Afer beginning with Wesley’s unwavering economics of stewardship as predicated upon the dynamics of the divine economy, it briefy considers the nature and activity of grace in Wesley’s theology. Te discussion then turns to Wesley’s afective-responsive moral psychology of habituation in Christian practices and virtues. Indeed, this combination—an economics of stewardship, an a fective-responsive moral psychology, and the Christological content of perfection—fundamentally characterizes the entirety of Wesley’s moral theology, not just his economics. Te moral-theological heart of Wesley’s economics is therefore a hermeneutical cycle of stewardship and response that accounts for our cooperation with God’s grace throughout the entirety of creation, including our ecological stewardship. Keywords: John Wesley, moral psychology, moral theology, economics, stewardship Dear Sir, Since I received your favour I have had many thoughts on worldly and Christian prudence. What is the nature of each? How do they difer? How may we distinguish one from the other? It seems worldly prudence either pursues worldly ends—riches, honour, ease, or plea- sure—or pursues Christian ends on worldly maxims or by worldly means. Te grand maxims which obtain in the world are: Te more power, the more money, the more learning, and the more reputa- tion a man has, the more good he will do . Christian prudence Wesley and Methodist Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2021 Copyright © 2021 Te Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA DOI: 10.5325/weslmethstud.13.1.0001 The Language of Salvation in William Booth’s In Darkest England Mark R. Teasdale Abstract In many of his early writings and sermons William Booth employed similar language to John Wesley when teaching about Christian perfection. However, in In Darkest England and the Way Out, he changed this language. He bifurcated God’s blessings for this world and the next, using the terms ‘Social Salvation’ and ‘Eternal Salvation’, and explained that Social Salvation did not require an internal transformation by the Holy Spirit. Tis article surveys the three primary reasons posited for this change and ofers a fourth: Booth modifed the language he used for salvation to elicit the best response from his intended audience. Keywords: sanctifcation, salvation, evangelism, social work, William Booth William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, was a committed Wesleyan. Even aFer exiting both the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Methodist New Connexion to become an itinerant evangelist, he maintained his great admiration for John Wesley. When Hugh Price Hughes once asked Booth if he had any advice for the Methodists, Booth’s answer was ‘Follow John Wesley, glorious John Wesley.’1 Booth was especially infuenced by John Wesley’s teachings about salvation, particularly sanctifcation.2 Both Booth

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